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Using anaconda to manage local python environment

It happens that different bioinformatic tools that we want to install requires specific python library versions. What makes it worse is that sometimes the python libraries that they required could be incompatible with each other, leaving our local python environment as a messy place to manage. Anaconda is a great tool to manage local python environment and libraries. With Anaconda, we can easily create isolated virtual environment for a specific python version: